Beig, L., Ghavamifar, A., (2008) “Organizational Memory Building blocks of Virtual Organizations”, proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications (ICTTA), Syria, IEEE press. (original) (raw)

Organizational Memory Building blocks of Virtual Organizations

Given the literature on the emerging form of Virtual Organization (VO) and the importance of Organizational Memory (OM) in these modem organizations, the contribution of this paper is to identify building blocks of OM in VOs. The exploration of this area has been conducted through a literature review of OM and VOs. Firstly, the paper provides a discussion of the characteristics and organizational elements of VOs found in the literature. Secondly, different OM models presented are discussed. Finally a conceptual model of building blocks of OM in VOs will be presented.

Designing a Virtual Organizational Memory- A Case Study

2008 International Workshop on Advanced Information Systems for Enterprises, 2008

Knowledge is often the property of individual decision makers in the organizations and when they leave, their experience is lost by the organization at a great cost. The utilization of an organizational memory is essential in order to avoid knowledge loss. In virtual organizations, where the cooperation between the partners has a restricted life span, this cost may be significant. Existing research is deficient in the utilization of the concepts virtual organization and Knowledge management together. This research has undertaken to study these two concepts together. This paper presents the process of designing an organizational memory for a virtual organization. This process is described on the basis of a case study chosen in the building field. It shows the limits of existing acquisition methods for virtual organisations, some propositions are done to extend one of these methods. A virtual organizational memory for post seismic evaluation is developed using case-based reasoning technique.

Virtual Organizations : Information Technology

Singaporean Journal of Business , Economics and Management Studies, 2012

In the past decade, complex bureaucratic of organizations was containing such consistency and zeal that damaged it consider indecent and sometimes impossible. In this atmosphere, idea of creating virtual organizations was not dissimilar a dream. But today, the dramatic changes in the organization and inconceivable development of communication technology ,information and pervading computer networks in organizations and even homes, on the other hand, inefficient traditional organizations in response to these developments, cause fading of the administrative organization (bureaucracy) and Netocray reign(network reign on organization).However, the idea of virtual organizations not only has been appeared real, but is an undeniable necessity to 21st century organization. Today, many employees from their homes through information and communication networks such as the Internet, pager, fax, video conferencing and ... Offer their services to organizations. Also large and small organizations, by glancing unity to performing a special work in a group by using information and communication technology, even collaborate with their former rivals and make great things. However, in this paper, try to explain the need to address issues such as the concept of virtual organizations, and also life cycle, types, advantages and disadvantages of virtual organization as it possible.

The Functionality of Virtual Organizations

Procceedings of T-World, 2001

The objective of this paper is to study, how well the new organizational forms called virtual organizations are functioning. The ultimate purpose is to develop a more coherent theoretical account of virtual organizations and their various forms, e.g. teams, companies and networks. The practical aim is to develop bases to analyse and model virtual organizations. In the first chapter, reasons for the emergence of virtual organisations are discussed. The second chapter deals with the background of virtual organizations, the concept 'virtual organization' is defined, and different forms of virtual organizations as objects of the study are described. The third chapter summarizes some empirical findings concerning virtual organizations including three own case studies. Advantages, disadvantages and some managerial implications are presented. And finally, questions are dealt, what to study in virtual organizations, and how to study them empirically. This review is based on selected written material and on three own case studies.

Virtual organization as a strategic tool: Past, Present and Future

The continuous innovation in IT leads to VO concept. There are several reasons of this transformation such as: cope with new demands, and radical change in IT, gain competitive advantage, cost reduction, increasing performance, flexibility, and productivity, and involved suitable human skills from different places. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the VO concept, its evolution, characteristics, challenges associated with its implementation and proposed solution to compensate these difficulties, which led to the employment of virtual organization to become strategic tool in many organization. Real life examples will be shown, how it was used by organizations in past and present, and in the future.

Virtual Organization: An Extensive Overview

The International Journal of Business and Management, 2017

Virtual Organization: An Extensive Overview 1. Introduction Managers and subordinates interface has always been face-to-face since the beginning of work organizations. Information Communication Technology (ICT) has changed this norm and created a new type of organization interface called VO, where management is virtual rather than face-to-face. Since virtual management has changed the whole concept of work organization, henceforth, it has become crucial to draw a line that demarcates VO from so called traditional organization. The central thesis of this paper is to draw a distinguished line between a VO from non-VO. To address this concern, the paper will proceed along the following spectrum: VO will be defined for purpose of conceptual clarity; emergences, characteristics, types, life cycle and the taxonomies of VO, will be highlighted; VO and VT will be distinguished; definitional frameworks of VO and the process of VO, the core of the paper, will be discussed followed by advantages and challenges of VO; a set of recommendation is offered to overcome the challenges faced by VO; different types of Virtual Employees are discussed and the collaboration tools of VO is enumerated. 2. Definition of Virtual Organization This section does not take into account all the definitions of VO given in the literature. Instead, the chosen definitions in this section are reviewed, commented and then classified. This may help to provide a clearer definition of VO and its implications. The terms virtual team, virtual corporation, virtual enterprise, virtual company, virtual management, and mobile workplace are used as synonyms for the term Virtual Organization in the literature (Jacobson, 2004). The VO transcends e-commerce, e-business, e-work and egovernment modes (Camarinha-Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2005). Jacobson (2004) and Reinicke (2010) claimed that the term VO was first coined by Mowshowitz in the 1980s, whereas, Camarinha-Matos and Afsarmanesh (2005) have argued that the term VO was not invented by a single researcher; the concept has matured through a long evolutionary process. In the literature, there are as many definitions of VO as there are researchers providing them (Guyverson 2006; Larsen & McInerney 2008). A point upon which many authors generally agree is that there is no common definition of VO. Some definitions of VO simply paraphrase the previous definitions, while others attempt to capture the many characteristics of VO.

Characteristics of virtual organizations

Organizational virtualness, 1998

VoNet the Newsletter @ http://www.virtual-organization.net as well as the newslist VoTalk celebrate their one year existence. In this time it has gained a lot of attention by researchers and also by managers. To concentrate on the topic of organizational virtualness we will organize a workshop for presentation and discussion of research in progress in April 1998. Virtualness -as we know from your contributions to VoNet and VoTalk -not only consists of computer mediated communication but also needs face-to-face meetings to intensify social connectivity and awareness among groups of people concerned with the same activities. Therefore we would be pleased to meet you for a two day workshop in Berne, Switzerland. The topic of the workshop will be organizational virtualness including all the research activities and practical experiences that focus on organizational structure, behavioral patterns and technological support of virtual organizations as well as virtual organizations in a global operation, the management of virtual global organizations, etc.

The Important of Virtual Organization

Procedia Technology, 2012

Academic researches show that the capability of virtual organization has an important role in long-time existence of the business enterprises in today's variable and competitive environments. In recent years, because of the importance of the virtual organization, many studies and analysis has been done on this subject. Each one of these researches are concentrated on a special aspect of this subject, and this different looking has caused that despite the importance of the virtual organization, there are so many discussions and ambiguous theory points in this field, yet. When a business opportunity is distinguished, a need for planning and developing a virtual organization, developing an agreement or cooperation contracts among members or good participants and adjusting and arranging the desirable base in order to run the operations according to the agreement is appeared. In this paper the process of virtual organization formation is investigated

The Virtual Organization from the Viewpoint of Informing

InSITE Conference, 2002

The conditions of globalization require companies to transform from the traditional industrial enterprises into the modern post-industrial ones, which are becoming open, flexible and innovative. The focus on knowledge has lead to increase attention towards information technology (IT) as one of the main source of competitive advantages. Organizational starting points for their functioning lead to a specific organizational structure, e.g. virtual organization. Virtual organizations enable organizational and/or individual core competencies to be brought together when needed, and disbanded when no longer required on one hand. On the other hand, competitive pressure over the modern conditions of business requires a high quality of business functioning. Business functioning of virtual organizations car be significantly improved mainly in the field of its management, which is its least developed and investigated area. An important viewpoint of management presents a holistic information sup...

Characterizing Virtual Organizations and Their Management

IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing

Iris.Kan/onen&.vttfi, liro.Salkari&.vtt.fi. Martin.OHus(a>vttfi FINLAND Virtual Organization (VO) Management aims to the achievement of the objectives of the VO. It can be seen as a set of mechanisms and activities directing and controlling VO operation. As different VOs have different objectives and environment, different approaches for VO management are needed. The paper discusses the concept of VO management and presents an outline for building VO management approaches based on VO characteristics or descriptive parameters. First analysis of practical cases against the characteristics has been performed. Further development is needed to specify the management methods and mechanisms for different approaches.